The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 249 or 249?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 249?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|249| = ?
The absolute value of 249 is the distance between 249 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 249:
Since the distance between 249 and 0 on a number line is 249, we get the answer as follows:
|249| = 249
Note that the absolute value of 249 can also be written as abs(249) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 250
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